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Dropped: Doctor Prisoner (닥터 프리즈너) (2019)
Oof, I watched up to episode 4 (of 32) of this drama and I could see potential in the revenge plot, but the overall writing and production was just a bit too dramatic for me.
The first two episodes were entirely too dramatic and infuriating for me and I was planning to drop the drama then, but I gave it two more episodes, at which point I was just a little bored.
Story
Na Yije, our main character, had his medical license revoked due to pissing off the wrong spoiled rich kid. In the present, Na Yije applied to be the doctor of a prison, so that he could take revenge on the spoiled rich kid. That can't have been the entirety of the revenge though, as if he was just going to slap around one (1) snot-nosed kid, the drama wouldn't have been as long as it was.
Revenge story lines are incredibly common in kdramas, but I also felt that this revenge story wasn't presented in a way that drew my attention. We didn't have to know Na Yije's master plan right away, but while that part of the story was being set up, the drama just a little aimless. We could tell that Na Yije was putting something together, but they were kind of scattered, and there wasn't much else to keep me invested.
There seemed to be a typical corruption story line as well, and I'm sure that Na Yije's revenge would push the first domino of that chain, but at the moment, not enough was set up in the first four episodes for me to care.
So overall, the story was just a bit generic, and for a revenge thriller story, its first few episodes were not gripping enough to pull me in.
As for the writing, it was just so dramatic. When Na Yije was doing brain surgery, he was interrupted not once, not twice, but THRICE and that was just so difficult to believe.
We also got some cursed writing when Na Yije joined the prison as a medical director and the prisoners were all cheering....yeah no.
So typical story with extremely unreasonable writing.
Production
Honestly, the entire production for this drama reflected what I'd come to expect from a kdrama. The directing, the lighting, the costuming, etc. It all definitely reaffirmed the fact that I was watching a Korean drama.
Characters
Na Yije was kind of too perfect. At the beginning, I was intrigued to see him lie on someone's medical record in order to get her help for his own personal gain. When we flashed back to the present, however, we saw that he was the goodest man ever. He would do surgeries for homeless people for free (gasp!) and he was friends with a deaf couple who were expecting a baby (how heartwarming!). It was all so dramatic, and meant to reaffirm to us that Na Yije was indeed a good person and we were to remember that.
The other character that really ticked me off was Lee Jaehwan. He was a brat, but everybody around him somehow fell in his folly. When he got out of the car to harass the couple in the truck, his sister was just sitting in the car being afraid?? Why didn't she get out of the car to stop him? She was slapping him before, why is she scared now? And when Lee Jaehwan was harassing the doctors in the hospital, why didn't she do anything? She really felt like all talk to me. It wasn't necessarily the biggest problem that Jaehwan was a jackass, it was a problem that nobody else reacted to him in a way that made sense.
Overall
I was considering whether I should try to tough this series out just in case it gets better. But even if the story gets better, I doubt that the character writing will.
The first two episodes were entirely too dramatic and infuriating for me and I was planning to drop the drama then, but I gave it two more episodes, at which point I was just a little bored.
Story
Na Yije, our main character, had his medical license revoked due to pissing off the wrong spoiled rich kid. In the present, Na Yije applied to be the doctor of a prison, so that he could take revenge on the spoiled rich kid. That can't have been the entirety of the revenge though, as if he was just going to slap around one (1) snot-nosed kid, the drama wouldn't have been as long as it was.
Revenge story lines are incredibly common in kdramas, but I also felt that this revenge story wasn't presented in a way that drew my attention. We didn't have to know Na Yije's master plan right away, but while that part of the story was being set up, the drama just a little aimless. We could tell that Na Yije was putting something together, but they were kind of scattered, and there wasn't much else to keep me invested.
There seemed to be a typical corruption story line as well, and I'm sure that Na Yije's revenge would push the first domino of that chain, but at the moment, not enough was set up in the first four episodes for me to care.
So overall, the story was just a bit generic, and for a revenge thriller story, its first few episodes were not gripping enough to pull me in.
As for the writing, it was just so dramatic. When Na Yije was doing brain surgery, he was interrupted not once, not twice, but THRICE and that was just so difficult to believe.
We also got some cursed writing when Na Yije joined the prison as a medical director and the prisoners were all cheering....yeah no.
So typical story with extremely unreasonable writing.
Production
Honestly, the entire production for this drama reflected what I'd come to expect from a kdrama. The directing, the lighting, the costuming, etc. It all definitely reaffirmed the fact that I was watching a Korean drama.
Characters
Na Yije was kind of too perfect. At the beginning, I was intrigued to see him lie on someone's medical record in order to get her help for his own personal gain. When we flashed back to the present, however, we saw that he was the goodest man ever. He would do surgeries for homeless people for free (gasp!) and he was friends with a deaf couple who were expecting a baby (how heartwarming!). It was all so dramatic, and meant to reaffirm to us that Na Yije was indeed a good person and we were to remember that.
The other character that really ticked me off was Lee Jaehwan. He was a brat, but everybody around him somehow fell in his folly. When he got out of the car to harass the couple in the truck, his sister was just sitting in the car being afraid?? Why didn't she get out of the car to stop him? She was slapping him before, why is she scared now? And when Lee Jaehwan was harassing the doctors in the hospital, why didn't she do anything? She really felt like all talk to me. It wasn't necessarily the biggest problem that Jaehwan was a jackass, it was a problem that nobody else reacted to him in a way that made sense.
Overall
I was considering whether I should try to tough this series out just in case it gets better. But even if the story gets better, I doubt that the character writing will.